Background: Flexible Flat Foot (FFF), a common foot deformity decreasing medial longitudinal arch height is often comorbid with subtalar joint pronation causing physical activity difficulties in this population. Among the orthotic insoles prescribed for improving foot function, foot orthoses with medial heel skive technique have a limited research background. The present study aimed to investig...

To obtain the best quality and quantity of pistachio fruits, knowing the most suitable time of pollination, is of paramount importance. This study was conducted to investigate the effect of pollination time, different stages of female flower development, including A (lower florets opened and clusters were green), B (lower and medial florets opened and clusters were green), C (all florets opened...

BACKGROUND Limited in vivo kinematic information exists on managing meniscal injury during anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction (ACLR). HYPOTHESIS Isolated anatomic ACLR restores knee kinematics, whereas ACLR in the presence of medial meniscal injury is associated with altered long-term knee kinematics. STUDY DESIGN Cohort study; Level of evidence, 3. METHODS From March 2011 to Decem...

Although opening-wedge high tibial osteotomy (HTO) is used to correct deformities, it can simultaneously alter tibial slope in the sagittal plane because of the triangular configuration of the proximal tibia, and this undesired change in tibial slope can influence knee kinematics, stability, and joint contact pressure. Therefore, medial opening-wedge HTO is a technically demanding procedure des...

Let G be a 3-connected planar graph and G∗ be its dual. We show that the pathwidth of G∗ is at most 6 times the pathwidth of G. We prove this result by relating the pathwidth of a graph with the cut-width of its medial graph and we extend it to bounded genus embeddings. We also show that there exist 3-connected planar graphs such that the pathwidth of such a graph is at least 1.5 times the path...

In this paper, we propose a novel practical method for blob-based liquid 3D morphing. Firstly, blobby objects are employed to approximate a given polygonal surface. The primitives in the medial axis sphere-tree of a polygonal model are utilized as initial blobs— this greatly improves the robustness and efficiency of the blob-based approximation. Secondly, we establish the blob correspondences b...

purpose: to report a patient with exotropia due to medial rectus muscle entrapment as a complication of endoscopic dacryocystorhinostomy (edcr). case report: a 34-year-old female was referred with left exotropia 18 days after edcr for treatment of primary nasolacrimal duct obstruction. she had a large angle left exotropia in primary position as well as complete limitation of adduction and parti...

Background:  Medial pinning is one of the most controversial aspects of the surgical treatment of supracondylar fractures (SHF) owing to the risk of ulnar nerve injury.  Aim: To evaluate the safety and usefulness of medial pinning for SHF using ultrasound imaging for ulnar nerve visualization.   Methods: Fifteen children, with a mean age of 60 months, with displaced SHF were treated with a cros...

Ž . Ž . The medial preoptic nucleus MPN of the medial preoptic area MPOA and the medial amygdala are two brain regions in which Ž . male rat sexual behavior increased Fos-like immunoreactivity Fos-Li . Dopamine is released in the MPOA during male rat sexual behavior and facilitates copulation. Psychostimulants, which increase dopamine levels, induce Fos-Li in the striatum through D1 receptors. ...